Fantastic Metropolis

Fantastic Metropolis is a website with an agenda—literate, passionate and wise.

—Neil Gaiman

Some of the names included here are familiar literary guerillas; others are firing their first rounds. It’s a good way to start an uprising! Viva Fantastic Metropolis!

—Brian Aldiss

Fantastic Metropolis is a wonderful place with fine sensibilities.

—Neil Gaiman

Fascinating, provocative and polemical—Fantastic Metropolis is all about bringing us the literature we most deserve.

—China Miéville

[...] a site that is consistently broadening the borders and definitions of genre fiction and what a web site can do. Fantastic Metropolis is especially to be commended for the high proportion of fiction in translation.

—Kelly Link, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection

Fantastic Metropolis is one of our most eloquent advocates for a literary sensibility of the fantastic.

—James Patrick Kelly, Asimov’s

Clearly some of our best practitioners have decided that this is a site worth supporting, in part because it advocates so eloquently for the importance of taking genre in new directions.

—James Patrick Kelly, Asimov’s

If you demand more from your literature than the equivalent of a snooze in a warm tub, you’ll want to position yourself on the barricades at Fantastic Metropolis.

—Paul Di Filippo, Science Fiction Weekly Site of the Week

The crossroads of everything that’s interesting about 21^st Century literature.

—Matthew Woodring Stover

A truly worthwhile, thought-provoking site.

—John Marco